Teaghan spent days just watching the creatures in her dungeon and relaxing before she went back to work exploring her domain and improving her core room.

In her core room, Teaghan decided to make a couple of changes. She expanded her core room a couple of metres and made the ceiling a lot taller. Teaghan made many small platforms made up of rock and prop beryl in her core room and decided to see if she could place her core on one of the higher platforms. She moved the core and its pillar onto one of the platforms and allowed the platform to hover in the air.

With her core more hidden than before, Teaghan decided to try to create a floor boss instead of having one be chosen. She decided to choose the one diverse creature that covered the whole third floor, a tree lynx, as her floor boss.

Teaghan decided to create a different type of mana that she hadn’t used before on her floor boss.

She took earth mana and water mana and combined them. She mixed the two mana types and added even more mana to them, creating a blue and light brown mixture. But as she was mixing the two mana types together, a light green leaf fell from one of the trees and into the mixture of the earth and water mana. When the leaf fell into the mix, it instantly dissolved into the mana, and it changed the colouring into a dark green mixture. Teaghan wondered what she made, and she tried to pull a blue screen to see what she created, and a blue screen popped up.

Nature Mana

The blue screen just had the name, nothing else. This really surprised Teaghan. Almost every time she tried to pull up a blue screen description, she usually got a description. But, she was happy with this accident in her experiment, and she knew that this would work perfectly with a tree lynx floor boss that she wanted.

The next thing Teaghan had to do was choose her floor boss. She looked over every single tree lynx in hopes of finding one that called to her, and she did. This one male tree lynx had a huge claw mark going down its face, making its face kind of look like the cat in the harry potter series. Once she saw this lynx, Teaghan knew that this was going to be her third-floor boss.

Teaghan ordered the tree lynx to go to the boss room, and when he came, she calmed him and injected the nature mana into him. She watched as the tree lynx started to shake violently and pass out before the mana effects began. The lynx grew half a size bigger than the regular ones on the rest of the floor. It now had sharper claws and teeth, and it can completely blend into the tree canopy. It also now could manipulate roots to a small extent. With the new third-floor boss created, Teaghan decided to name him Crookshanks, after the cat in the harry potter series.

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With that done, Teaghan decided that it was high time to explore the underwater lake. With what happened when she explored and absorbed materials from the lake last time, Teaghan was a lot more cautious with what she did. Teaghan quickly spawned all the underwater plants, creatures and monsters that she had into the areas that were under her domain. She watched as her area of the lake quickly became populated with life. It was also interesting that everything that she spawned stayed inside her domain and did not swim across the barrier that indicated that the area was her domain. To protect her domain against any powerful creatures that might live in the lake, Teaghan placed two barriers of the coral types she had. The first barrier was made out of the mana enhanced sun coral, and the second, inner barrier, was made of regular sun coral. It was Teaghan’s hope that these barriers would prevent a large attack of many beings at once.

Teaghan then created an armour cavefish to explore the rest of the underwater lake that was unclaimed by her. She used the ability, “sightsee” on the cavefish and started exploring. About a couple of minutes in, she saw something. Teaghan directed the fish closer and saw that it was a bigger pile of the clear-bluish crystals. Not wanting what happened that last time to happen, she just watched the crystals to see if they did something. As Teaghan directed the fish closer, she could feel the power that she felt the first time she saw the crystals, but now she knew that it was water mana that she was feeling. And that just brought on more questions. Why was the pile of crystals producing what felt like water mana? So Teaghan watched and watched, and finally, she saw something interesting. The crystals that were filled with water mana were producing small amounts of water.

When Teaghan realized this, she was excited. If she could procure some of these crystals without destroying or absorbing the mana within the crystals. Teaghan, who just had a light bulb moment while looking at the crystals, realized that maybe she didn’t have to absorb them. She could bring them into her domain and force her mana into them to see if she could then absorb and recreate it without destroying the crystals in the process.

She ordered the armour cavefish around the collection of the crystals and found a crystal that looked loose, and ordered the cavefish to ram into the crystals. The fish rammed the crystal once, and knocked it looser, and rammed it once more before part of the crystal was knocked off. When the crystal piece fell off, Teaghan got the cavefish to pick up the piece in its jaws and swim back into her domain.

As soon as the armoured cavefish entered back into her domain, the fish dropped the crystal, Teaghan got to work. She injected a tiny bit of her own mana into the crystal. She watched to make sure that nothing terrible happened. After a couple of minutes, Teaghan tried to absorb the crystal and a blue screen popped up.

Water Crystal

A type of crystal that continuously produces water and water mana. The colour of the crystal shows what type of mana and element it creates. This type of elemental crystal has a chance of evolving if the correct mana surrounds it.

Teaghan, who already had an idea what the crystal does, was very pleased with this and knew that she would definitely be using it later.